skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I supposed I should have read it more carefully. It refers to phenelzine which is...both. It's nonselective so it's an A and B inhibitor.

How good is it, I cannot say as not a lot of people prescribe it anymore. The problem with it is that a risk of hypertensive crisis, especially in combination with tyramine in aged foods, or inducing an overload in combination w/ any other drug that raises monoamine neurotransmitter levels, i.e. SSRI's etc. It's become kind of a bogeyman. So the original source seems to be trying to fight that particular "meme" in medical education. I'm not about to wade into pubmed regarding how often hypertensive crisis happens in a 60 or 70 year old drug, but there may be a point in that as medical students, we memorize the "quick bites" of some of these things as our time and attention is extremely limited in figuring out what to study for the boards. and if we do want to prescribe it, we have a pharmacist pushing back on the other end of the phone because it has this thing as a big scary Black Box Warning on the drug.

I will say, MAO-B inhibitors (at least those studied in anti-parkinsonian trials and doses) don't seem to do anything. No hypertensive crisis, but we haven't been able to see a huge therapeutic effect either. The psych people dose them at 6 times the parkinsonian dose though...<shrug>

The other potential angle on that post is...this may reflect on some aspect of an unregulated generics market. Aside from phenelzine, I seem to see weird swings in availability and pricing of generics in the past few years.
After someone has setup a covered short, the stock they borrowed and sold is again on the open market, is it not? And thus could be lent out by the new owner, enabling a second covered short?
The whole point is the immature shit-for-brains act. It's funny on multiple levels when mashed up with analysis of equities.

You don't have to dig the humor but the public square is not "your house".
In this very thread you can find discussion on what makes a public forum a public forum.
I think your example highlights exactly what people are reacting to.

School is an environment where teachers have broad authority and try to use it to create a safe space to protect children from hurtful speech. Many people react strongly to the application of this power dynamic to adult interactions.

Derogatory speech has always been free speech, but the places where people speak are becoming more visible, and organizations are becoming more active in expanding safe spaces. Derogatory speech is probably the lowest it has ever been, but more heard than it has ever been, and more scrutinized than it has ever been.
Same for my company. Everybody was on call from time to time. For about 1-3 days.

When you promise 24/7 support, you need to deliver, even in Europe. Even on Christmas holidays. Even with highest degrees and being a world expert. Your customers are also world experts and pay premium.

My problem was surfing. You need to switch duties when you got a swell. You cannot catch calls while being in the surf, but you can while being in the bathroom or in the movies. Waterproof phones might have helped, but it worked out nevertheless.
> Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people.

All curse words are in the dictionary. Dictionaries are for looking up meaning, not moral arbiters. What are you on about?
Thank you, I am glad you liked it :)
JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you
Everyone should switch to CCS Type 2 Combo, like EU already has :)

A big part of the Tesla network is that there are only Teslas in there - vehicles that are guaranteed to have the ability to charge at 150kW+.

If every joe schmoe with a PHEV or Leaf would be hogging the HVDC chargers, the competitive advantage would go away and there'd be a lot more congestion.
Yes, and I see no problems with being offensive in a joking or ironic manner (as seems to be the case on WSB). However, when you decide to use a slur to do so, you are deciding to insult an entire subgroup of the population as collateral damage.
I had the impression that there was a fair amount of CS history that only shined much later when CPU, IO, memory, etc, was big enough or fast enough for it to become practical.

Edit: Meaning there are pretty straightforward reasons to care about history.
This is how we end up with the trolls trying to turn the :ok: symbol into hate speech.

...which reminds me: I need to start a letter writing campaign complaining to Apple about peddling sexual imagery (:aubergine:) to minors.
> a lot of users are going to be upset and will suddenly start to realize that a single company has a monopoly on their online social life

Hmm, it's almost as if this just happened recently, but people looked the other away because it was tightly coupled to politics. I think 2021 is going to blow 2020 out of the water.
I don't think any sane person could possibly believe TSLA stock isn't overvalued, and yet people continue to invest and the stock continues to climb. There are multiple forums where people discuss nothing but Tesla, including some focused solely on the stock. Many financial wizards have talked specifically about TSLA and how it is a bad investment, such as David Einhorn, and many of the stockholders have been happy to rally to higher prices because Elon Musk tweets he wants to see a higher number.

It seems like both stocks are targets of manipulation to me.
That's ridiculous. The elimination ship has long sailed: it is much better to vaccinate the health care workers and the population at risk, then reopen and walk through the vaccination of other people, relying on a combination of vaccine immunity and natural immunity to avoid straining hospitals.

The virus is becoming endemic already: pursuing "zero COVID" strategies in most countries is unworkable, will cause additional suffering in a population already strained by lockdowns, and will take a very long time.
Legal cannabis stores linked to fewer opioid deaths in the United States
You can find it at the top of the thread: alex@costplusdrugs.com
20K Chinese H1B Visas are a drop in the bucket in terms of opportunity. H1Bs are for people looking to make modest living, the real money is back in China. Common thing you hear from many nouveau riche Chinese is how poor the west are, young professional couple pulling 300K household income can barely afford to live nicely after inflation. Of course, that's still a very comfortable life, but western upper middle class is not aspirationally "rich" by Chinese standards anymore.
I understood “this” to mean “borrowing [more stock that actually existed] and shorting”.

As your link explains “Naked short selling, or naked shorting, is the practice of short-selling a tradable asset of any kind without first borrowing [...]”
What part of your job can you automate?
> Yes, that's freedom of speech.

War is Peace.

Freedom is Slavery.

Ignorance is Strength.

Censorship is Freedom of Speech.
I don't think it's this simple. That interpretation of freedom of speech seems a bit literal. The point is that people should have the ability to voice their opinions, and have their voice heard if anyone wants to hear it. Since today that's done primarily through social media sites, blogs, and videos, preventing people from using those mediums is limiting their freedom of speech.

And of course I'm not saying there aren't limits to freedom of speech. There are legitimate limits. But a social media company deciding they don't want you on their platform anymore without any due process seems wrong.

I just don't buy the overly literal "this is private property and I get to decide what you're allowed to say here", when that private property is our primary medium for communication.
Reddit provides pretty much no support at all for reasonable moderation tools and has as recently as this month migrated services and taken away key features in the process.

Most often mods are complicit in the bullshit that the sub participates in (trump related subs, /r/fatpeoplehate, etc). In this case I can see the mods wanting to keep the community afloat but reddit banning them for reasons which effectively become out of their control or unable to moderate.

Even the “official” Automoderator bot I think is just a underpowered cluster running some python.
No offence here, but if 4chan making racism "fun" was sufficient to make some kid hate real people including their neighbours or friends then it's was never a problem with the platform. It's just indication of larger problem in both society and / or upbringing.

People who can be easily radicalized or manipulated is just indication that they wasn't educated well enough to think on their own with their brain. And in any case chan culture is far better than some actual criminals or cultists who are much better at brainwashing people.

I'm not trying to justify some of chan content, but
I consider that it's greater good that some people get a lesson about how easily they could be manipulated.
Yes it is. It is not governmental censorship, but it is censorship.
You seem to think “retarded” is magnitudes worse than all of the other negative words you used and worth shutting down a community for.

I think most people do not think this is true.

I think moderation is hard and I’m generally in favor of private companies being able to moderate how they want (with something like Urbit being a good alternative for a user owned network).

That said, the word policing around this and wsb in particular (a pretty good natured community really) is pretty off.

I think you’re wrong on this one.
Learning environment matters, but I wouldn't say that it would completely change the outcome. If you are smart you don't have to work hard or have a good environment to understand high school maths. If you aren't that smart you can still pass the courses with hard work, but from my experience teaching a lot of college students in 1:1 settings people who have to work hard never really grasp the subjects. And some are so lacking that even with hard work they still can't pass.

So basically, just because someone managed to improve their grades and pass classes with hard work doesn't really say anything about my points. There are still people who pass easily without any of that. In short, my view is that hard work and environment can help improve your results, but unless you are completely prohibited from attending school you wont need that if you are smart enough.

For example, I skipped a lot of classes, was abused, was suicidal, never studied for any tests and didn't do any homework assignments in high school. I still got perfect math grades. Most people have better environments than that and spend more time on maths than that yet still do worse. I spent a lot of time doing 1:1 teaching in college, explaining things in intuitive ways etc helps, but ultimately I had to conclude that I can't make others understand things the way I do. They simply lacked something.
should have read the fine print at the back of the box :) /quit
I understood GP as talking about what is in the 'overton window' or not. You and I may have qualms about saying retard but I've worked in industries where that is not the case. I've met people who would call an unprofitable VC-backed company whose only customer-facing product is a well-designed chat client telling them what is or is not acceptable to say something I wouldn't say here.
Yes that Dell experience is poor, though it's warranty work rather than a revenue-earning service for them.

But what would your experience have been if Apple has simply said "no, we don't service that model any more"?

That's where "right to repair" is important.
I just cannot understand this take, genuinely.

How can you know what is a slur and what is not when judging the way others communicate in their relationships? What if it’s a nickname from childhood? What if...anything really?

How on earth would you take action on this point, besides teaching our children to be kind, thoughtful, and curious.
This sounds dystopian to me. I already can't stand Google Docs grammar checker trying to re-write my sentences to match some AI's idea of a correct sentence. Sure, when it actually detects a mistake I'm happy but 20% of the time it's just wrong and feels like it's trying to take my personality out of my writing.

Your suggestion sounds like a step to toward the Black Mirror Season 2 "White Christmas" episode where the main character gets ban from all social interaction (not just online) forever until death
Ask HN: Looking for a boilerplate contract for software development side job
I recently got an opportunity to do some contract software development work on the side, fixing a bug in a custom software solution that has been abandoned by its retired creator.

In the past I would have just punched up an estimate and/or invoice and hoped for the best. But I'm feeling like I should have some kind of contract to limit my liability (potentially).

Does anyone know of some kind of standard contract, perhaps some open source thing? I'm not asking for legal advice, I know I'll be taking on any and all risk if I don't have it reviewed by a lawyer. But if anyone could share something they like to use in their own work it would be much appreciated!
Is PouchDB popular at all on the web these days? Things like Realm etc. on mobile solve this problem by just giving you a client side database to read and write from, transport to a backend is handled by a sync engine. I guess this is sort of what meteor was trying to do but it never really took off.
Considering that Discord has a lot of gaming communities with underaged people, I can see the need for heavy moderation wrt language that tend to be used for cyberbullying. Whether or not just deleting the server is a good idea I disagree.
yes, soon all the pejoratives that I can use to describe a person believing in language policing will be banned...
Shorts borrow the stock for a time period. Let say you borrowed a stock that is $1 from me with the promise you will give the stock back end of the week + some interest. You sell the stock for $1 end of the week the price is $100 so you are on the hook for stock + interest. As the owner of the stock I will be more interested in getting it back and selling it for $100 rather than allowing you to give me the stock later by extending the loan terms when the price might drop.
I think NIO is only for Hong Kong and that's why they work. Huge population/vehicle density in a small area.

They even have a charging van you can order to your location if there isn't a charger nearby. It's just a van with a huge battery in the back :D
An important conversation, but I don’t feel this piece contributes anything. Hand-waving words are not going to solve the hard problems of where to allocate limited dollars.

Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY) are a widely used tool for measuring and reasoning about health care trade offs. They let you make utilitarian estimations on welfare to evaluate outcomes.

There are plenty of objections to this system; I’d hope for a recounting of some of these longstanding arguments, eg see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year#D... for links to papers from the last few decades on this subject.

The author is basically using a sentiment-driven “think of the children!” style argument, without making any attempt to weigh or quantify harms on either branch of the decision tree. That isn’t a particularly helpful approach in public health policy in my opinion.

To be fair they seem to be responding to opinion pieces (not data driven arguments) from the other side of the argument so maybe I’m setting too high a bar. But I feel the QALY based approach is not the mainstream idea, particularly in the USA, so it warrants a bit more defending.
FreeNAS uses ZFS. There isn't anthing traditional RAID about it.

You can expand it but not by adding a single disk to a parity set (going from five drives to six), only by adding a set of disks (adding another set of five or a similar combination).
You can buy call options too.. unless that fell apart not sure.

If anyone has watched the Showtime show Billions, this is the plot of Season 6. Basically Taylor vs Axe.
I wonder if Architecture - a much older trade, also having immediate commercial value and expensive intellectual property - has a technical history?

Or accountancy - another old trade with immediate commercial value, though perhaps without as much intellectual property.
The other reply already mentioned that the car knows where the chargers are. But it's even better than that; the car knows how many are available as well, updated in real time. As of a couple software updates ago.
This always fascinates me. The fact that a manhole cover has a scrap value means that there is someone actually buying manhole covers and melting them for metal.

Who? Why?
the word retard is common parlance in many parts of the world.

But lets not be retarded about this, the point is more that they are using a puritan argument about the word retard in a retarded manner in order to shut down discourse, to try and retard the share price of a stock, which has had absolutely retarded performance lately.
I agree that using the 8-bit CSI to eliminate the escape ambiguity would be great. The rest I'm a bit "meh" on. In particular I use C-S as the modifier for my terminal shortcuts, so if the terminal could detect it I'd be looking for yet another set of bindings that no terminal programs will ever use.
This is exactly why I think we’re in late stage capitalism. The economy has become so toxic that an army of retail investors has to yolo their money to try to realize an economic advantage in their lives. When retail investors finally do find a crack in the economic system and make some money, the regulatory body that never cared about the banks and their fraud in 2008, and the corporate enterprises that didn’t broadcast occupy Wall Street, all turn around and try to stop the momentum of WSB. The hypocrisy of it all is unbelievable.
"I demand that you refrain from exercising your full range of free speech so that I feel more comfortable exercising mine."
Show HN: Low-power Kindle-based dashboard
Not sure if there is any benefit to stripping back to raw radio. You can almost always build on top of other protocols to get a pipe that you can then build your protocol on.
People of various backgrounds often refer to themselves or close friends of theirs by what would otherwise be offensive slurs. That goes for black people, LGBT people, women, Asians, Jews, heck even white people often refer to themselves or another white person they are close with using a slur. There is actually evidence that people who refer to one another using slurs that would otherwise be offensive do so to strengthen social bonds with each other and there's some interesting game theory for why this is the case.

It's also quite common among comedians and other entertainers to make fun of their own ethnicity using slurs or use slurs in various performances.

You personally may not find it appropriate and that's a subjective point of view that you are entitled to have, but consider whether you have a good rational justification for it or whether you are exercising too much caution to the point that you are getting offended on behalf of others even when those others are not themselves offended.
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No, your link is about selling shares you didn’t borrow first. What’s going on here is perfectly legal, as explained in that very same link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling#%22Norma...
Google Will Stop Collecting Advertising Identifiers in Its iOS Apps
> immature

Get your point across without stomping a category of person.
> So the opposition of discord is a gang of wallstreet traders?

It was just in general, but even in this case, yes, there are two sides opposed to each other. One happens to be more influential, powerful and with more money behind it, and the underdog is the wallstreetbets people.

> If people comply with basic norms of decency they will get back on those platforms.

I guess so, but if you have thousands of people in a single server, it's virtually impossible to keep everyone calm, especially in situations such as this one, where large sums of money are involved. Also you'll have bad actors who are trying to make it look bad on purpose so they get shut down. This is Discord and people actually use this kind of tactics there.

> More and more words are being used under the banner of free speech.

Speaking strictly about the USA, this is just factually incorrect. Racism, homofobia etc. used to be fine not that long ago. And legally it's still protected under the 1A. But then it became socially unacceptable and from that point more and more speech started to become "not free". This year questioning the integrity of the elections became a fireable offense and as I found out today - anything offensive.

> The biggest irony of all is that the perspective on this matter is largely shaped by your political philosophy and whether you profit from these changes.

Regarding the profits, for sure, I imagine. But politically this is an apolitical "movement", you will find socialists, libertarians, nationalists and anything in between that support their efforts. I guess it really united people, in a way.
Yup, I've been on WSB for some serious time now and sure they call each other autists/retards to no end but nothing racial. F##K cancel culture.
Why? You mentioned that you don’t ever think it’s ok but never mentioned why.
This is a very good post; kudos for writing it up.

Another thing which may be nice to talk about is where the communities are for each language (Racket on Slack and the mailing lists, Common Lisp has an irc...).
Instead of having to implement REST apis is what I mean.

It could work with REST underneath or REST being auto generated based off your function names, but you shouldn't have to deal with that. And REST in general would probably not be optimal to transfer the data here.
It's time we get back to basics: irc
Whether total functional purity is desirable or not is a huge divide in the FP community, as large as anything in the OO world.
There are more Teslas in space than there are Hydrogen charging stations in Finland.
The user is u/deepfuckingvalue.
He made the first post in September of 2019 and then followed with bimonthly posts until this year when he started posting daily screenshots.
You can see from the earlier posts, how this trade was met with ridicule.
You can also check him out on Youtube at RoaringKitty

https://www.reddit.com/user/deepfuckingvalue/posts/
This would just screw over poor countries. See the example of Tanzania someone gives below: selling drugs cheaper in such a country will stop immediately if it risks undercutting the US market.
Clams help keep Polish water clean
The mean dollar through Robinhood probably comes from a WSB:er tho
Do you care about performance? In my experience, N+1 queries are impossible to avoid with hibernate (or any JPA framework, generally). But maybe I’m just using it wrong.
Yeah they should be capable of having a compatible type system. So if you change a field name on backend, frontend won't compile unless you fix it there too.
- Nothing I wrote is embarrassing.

- I don't think a fedora would fit over my afro.

- If you'd be too embarrassed to stand up to someone calling you an asshole for not tolerating racist drivel, you need to work on your self-esteem :)
I have worked both on OO and functional Python projects, and my conclusion is that any coding approach in Python is pointless if you are not a disciplined developer, and you don't care about refactoring your code once in a while.

For instance mature Flask apps usually have a mix of clean and barely readable modules. You can't force developers to care about whoever is going to replace them in the future. Some people care, some people don't.
Nobody can de-list bitcoin. Countries can outlaw it but that won't stop and can't stop it. It's exists in the dystopian end game.
> I have seen nothing since that disproves the outcome

This is the harm done by badly designed popularized experiments.